Sam Blacketer wrote:
"[The article] Misnames 'administrators' as 'arbitrators'."
Actually, it says "hot topics [..] will have to be scrutinised by arbitrators chosen
from Wikipedia’s most active volunteer contributors."
"Administrators" don't make content decisions. And an administrator who
makes decisions about content is no longer acting as an administrator, they are acting as
an editor. "Arbitrator" suffices, and gives appropriate connotations.
What was interesting about it was the fatalism and give-up-ness, as if somehow people
didn't make these criticisms before, and as if those criticisms' dismissal with
extreme prejudice never happened.
-s
Original message:
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article56…
Slightly confused article headed "The wiki-snobs are taking over" by Giles
Hattersley. Misnames 'administrators' as 'arbitrators'. Towards the end
the
author claims "My entry features at least two errors, one libellous (unless
my mother has been keeping a dark secret, I am not Roy Hattersley's son)"
which has me befuddled since there is no entry on Giles Hattersley nor was
there ever one (unless it's been oversighted).
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Sam Blacketer